Yard crane deployment in container terminals

In recent years, the shipping trades in Singapore increases tremendously and the resources of the container terminals have limited resources. To stay competitive, terminals have to utilize their resources efficiently. This project aims to help terminals to reduce the trucks waiting time in the stora...

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Main Author: Tay, Teck Chin.
Other Authors: Huang Shell Ying
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Language:English
Published: 2011
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-441842023-03-03T20:25:04Z Yard crane deployment in container terminals Tay, Teck Chin. Huang Shell Ying School of Computer Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Physical sciences and engineering In recent years, the shipping trades in Singapore increases tremendously and the resources of the container terminals have limited resources. To stay competitive, terminals have to utilize their resources efficiently. This project aims to help terminals to reduce the trucks waiting time in the storage yard by using a simulation approach and the improved least cost heuristic algorithm to deploy yard cranes to high workload block. This report will discuss the design and the result of the experiments using the original least cost heuristic algorithm and its improvements. From this project, it was found that the improvement using weighted scheme do improve the waiting time of the trucks and had the least vertical yard crane gantries. Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 2011-05-27T08:12:48Z 2011-05-27T08:12:48Z 2011 2011 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44184 en Nanyang Technological University 60 p. application/pdf
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Tay, Teck Chin.
Yard crane deployment in container terminals
description In recent years, the shipping trades in Singapore increases tremendously and the resources of the container terminals have limited resources. To stay competitive, terminals have to utilize their resources efficiently. This project aims to help terminals to reduce the trucks waiting time in the storage yard by using a simulation approach and the improved least cost heuristic algorithm to deploy yard cranes to high workload block. This report will discuss the design and the result of the experiments using the original least cost heuristic algorithm and its improvements. From this project, it was found that the improvement using weighted scheme do improve the waiting time of the trucks and had the least vertical yard crane gantries.
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title Yard crane deployment in container terminals
title_short Yard crane deployment in container terminals
title_full Yard crane deployment in container terminals
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